By BaxterNow is the time for all good cats to review yesterday's election results.
Arkansas — We cats are not crushed that the so-called Left was unable to defeat Blanche Lincoln yesterday. First, the Left in Arkansas is not left, if you know what we mean. But more important, we cats are tired of lazy journalists who latch onto a convenient narrative and beat it to death (e.g., the electorate's anti-incumbent mood). The country is much more complicated than that — which reporters would discover if they got their fat asses up from behind the computer and actually talked to folks. So, thank you, Senator Lincoln, for temporarily shutting these people up.
California — Carly "I Killed HP" Fiorina and Meg "Billions of Dollars Can't Buy Me a Makeover" Whitman were pushed so far to the right in their respective Republican primaries that we're wondering how in the general they'll be able to dial it back. Yes, the lazy press will probably allow them to do it — but surely the teabaggers won't.
Orly Taitz — Oh, darn. "Birther" idiot Orly Taitz lost her bid to be California's Secretary of State. Gosh, it would have been fun. But we're sure that Ms. Taitz is already blaming her defeat on the Muslim conspirators who planted Barack Obama's birth announcement in the Honolulu Star Bulletin 50 years ago.
Nevada — We cats are very sad that with Sue Lowden's embarrassing loss, the days of chicken suits at Republican rallies appear to be over.
South Carolina — So the boys in the state GOP establishment tried to take down Nikki Haley and failed. There is no downside to this. On the national party level, a victorious Haley will compete with Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and Liz Cheney for the title of Biggest Female Wingnut. On the state level, as a Sanford person Haley has been in open rebellion against her party's establishment for some time — even before they started talking openly about her sex life. Hard to see how a Governor Haley gets anything done.
Republican Party Overall — We cats agree mightily with E.J. Dionne that 2010's election results so far bode ill for the GOP. Republicans continue to marginalize themselves into an angry, white, regional party. (Take Meg Whitman, for example. As the new Latino hater, she's like Pete Wilson Redux. That worked out well for them, didn't it?)
We cats PURR.
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